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Current press releases

Based on provisional data, the price adjusted stock of orders in manufacturing in January 2018 rose a calendar and seasonally adjusted 1.4% on the previous month, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The domestic orders not yet completed increased 1.6% on the previous month, the stock of foreign orders rose 1.3%. The stock of orders comprises the total of new orders received by the end of the reference month which have not led to any turnover and have not been cancelled by that time.

In 2016, the total of waste electrical and electronic equipment accepted and treated in primary treatment facilities amounted to 782,2 thousand tonnes, of which 667.8 thousand tonnes were recycled, that is recovered as material. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this figure accounted for 85.4% of the total of waste electrical and electronic equipment accepted.

Wholesale selling prices, February 2018
• –0.3% on the previous month
• +1.2% on the same month a year earlier

As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the selling prices in wholesale trade increased by 1.2% in February 2018 from the corresponding month of the preceding year. In January 2018 and in December 2017 the annual rates of change were +2.0% and +1.8%, respectively.
From January 2018 to February 2018 the index fell by 0.3%.

In 2017, the general pay gap between women and men, that is, the unadjusted gender pay gap, remained unchanged compared with the previous year. To coincide with the Equal Pay Day on 18 March, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports on the basis of updated results that the average gross hourly earnings of women (16.59 euros) were 21% lower than those of men (21.00 euros).

Almost 12.1 billion eggs were produced in 2017 by holdings in Germany which had at least 3,000 places for laying hens. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a 0.9% increase on 2016. In the previous year, the number of eggs produced had increased by 1.5%.